Author Archives: Richard Graham

Fantastic School and business people

This morning’s school was great! Over the past couple of days I’ve been half thinking that I’ve maybe lost my touch with some of the teachers not being as genki as usual. But today there were no such worries at all and it was a fantastic workshop! It’s probably because unlike the last couple of…

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The 3rd Rule of GenkiEnglish

Tried out one of my new synths this morning, oh very nice!! It sounds great, so I was in a really good mood for today’s school. And the signs were good, with the kouchou sensei having a good chat about Japanese schools and the sister school they have in Korea. The actual workshop was OK,…

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Cool School

Today’s school was a little strange as they asked for a seminar “for very beginners” but they had actually been teaching English for three years!!! And actually even though it was an official compulsory workshop several teachers simply ran away when they heard it was being done by a non-Japanese. Hmmm, a lot to fix…

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Teacher Chats

Today I didn’t have any workshops but had a meeting with a teacher from one of the schools I’m going to next month. So was really cool and just like yesterday it was great to sit down with an enthusiastic teacher, help them out and also learn some cool stuff myself! There are now a…

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Okayama, great teacher

Today I was scheduled to have a workshop from 1 o’clock, but after chatting with the teacher last night we decided I’d go to the school and have a look at the stuff they were doing in the morning. The teacher there is really good and has some cool ideas and materials. They base their…

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